POGONIA VERTICILLATA. 



WHORLED-LEAVED POGONIA. 



Gynandria Monandria, Linn. Orchidex, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Petals 5, distinct, without glands. Lip sessile, cucullate, internally crested. Pollen 

 farinaceous. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Leaves in fives, oblong-lanceolate, verticillate ; stem one-flowered ; the three exte- 

 rior petals very long, linear, the interior ones lanceolate ; lip three-lobed, the 

 middle segment undulated. Willd. 



Plant from twelve to fifteen inches high. Root branched, consist- 

 ing of several very long, fleshy fibres of a brown colour, running hori- 

 zontally near the surface of the earth. Stem simple, erect, glaucous, 

 terete, of a dull-purple colour for nearly its whole length, being whitish 

 below and bluish-green above. Leaves about five, collected in a single 

 whorl at the extremity of the stem, oblong-lanceolate, acute, of a yel- 

 low-green colour on both sides. Flower solitary, rarely two or three on 



